The answer to this question and many others that were brought up at the meeting, check out the special report published by the Knight Foundation in e-book format (PDF):http://www.knightfoundation.org/research_publications/detail.dot?id=364196.

The report addresses the major sessions of the meeting that include topics like entrepreneurship, revenue, engagement, technology along with supplemental materials of the participant organizations. This report goes beyond just giving the minutes of the meeting but concisely summarizes the key topics discussed during each session and presents the important dialogue that occurred among the participants during the meeting that could only be captured in this in-depth report. Download it here: http://www.knightfoundation.org/research_publications/detail.dot?id=364196.

You can see the slides used by each presenter on the symposium website: http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/slides.php

Here is some coverage and commentary on the panel discussion:

• Robert Rich provides key quotes from their presentations in the official symposium blog.
• Interviews with NPR’s Matt Thompson on Epic 2014 (An eight-minute movie depicting a fictional “museum of media history”) and Project Argo (an NPR project to help combine context and community engagement with news) are also on the official blog.
• Digital media scholar Alfred Hermida’s blog post on the panel.

For more information about the symposium as a whole, see this story on the Knight Center homepage and more posts from the symposium blog.   Videos of the panel will be avaiable shortly on the symposium website.

Community connectedness and diverse revenue streams are critical ingredients for success for nonprofit news organizations. That’s my headline the conversation at the Knight Foundation‘s “Seeking Sustainability” roundtable discussion of about 50 people representing 18 nonprofit news organizations Monday in Austin. (Twitter hashtag: #nonprofitJ.)  Read more.

Romenesko writes:

Representatives from about 18 non-profit news sites are in Austin to share tips and discuss mutual concerns. “It’s kind of like the meeting of the five families in ‘The Godfather,’” one participant tells Romenesko. || Alan Mutter: The MinnPost model might work.

Free open source software funded under the Knight News Challenge:

• http://knightapps.org

Funding for Freedom of Information lawsuits, from the National Freedom of Information Coalition:

• http://www.nfoic.org/

Journalism, digital and citizen media training:

• http://newsu.org
• http://kcnn.org
• http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu
• http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/

Legal information for online sites, from Berkman at Harvard:

• http://www.ucan.org/tags/legal_help

Profile – Bay Citizen (.pdf)

Profile – California Watch (.pdf)

Profile – Chicago News Cooperative (.pdf)

Profile – Connecticut News Project (.pdf)

Profile – Crosscut (.pdf)

Profile – Gotham Gazette (.pdf)

Profile – New America Media (.pdf)

Profile – New Haven Independent (.pdf)

Profile – Oakland Local (.pdf)

Profile – St. Louis Beacon (.pdf)

Profile – Texas Tribune (.pdf)

Profile – Voices of San Diego (.pdf)

Seeking Sustainability:
Online Nonprofit Local/Regional News Venture Roundtable
A meeting sponsored by Knight Foundation and co-hosted by the Texas Tribune, Voice of San Diego and the Knight Chair in Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin.

AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, Conference Room 301

April 26, 2010

8:00-9:00 a.m.   Registration and breakfast

9:00-9:15 a.m.    Welcome session:

• Roderick Hart, Dean UT Austin College of Communication
• Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO, Knight Foundation
• Rosental Alves, Knight Chair in Journalism at UT Austin
• All participants introduce themselves very briefly (name and affiliation only)

9:15-10:30 a.m. Entrepreneurialism and venture mindset session, led by Buzz Woolley, Chairman of the Board, Voice of San Diego

10:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee break

10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Revenue generation session, led by John Thornton, Chairman of Texas Tribune

12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch in the Tejas Dining Room

1:00-2:15 p.m. Session: Engagement and community-building session, led by Scott Lewis, CEO of Voice of San Diego

2:15-2:30 p.m. Coffee break

2:30-3:45 p.m. Technology and innovation session, let by Evan Smith, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Texas Tribune

3:45-5:00 p.m. Wrap-up session, led by Alberto Ibargüen